Tyne and Wear HER(9160): Newcastle, Blackett Street, Nos. 23, 25 and 27 (Gem House) - Details
9160
Newcastle
Newcastle, Blackett Street, Nos. 23, 25 and 27 (Gem House)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Shop
Modern
C20
Extant Building
Shop and offices. 1904 by Newcombe and Newcombe for Robert Herron; circa 1906
shop for Reid and Sons. Sandstone ashlar; slate roof. Free style with art-nouveau
shop details. 3 storeys and attics; 2 wide bays. Shop has curved windows to
recessed entrance and scrolled brass name plaques below windows; flowing glazing
bars to window heads and to mirror soffit; much carved ornament to 2 recessed
doors. Bracketed fascia below 2 wide shallow bows with pilasters of different
Orders on each floor, Roman Doric, Ionic and Corinthian framing 3 sashes in
each bow. Serpentine dentilled top cornice. Roof balustrade with tall spike
finials. 2 wide attic windows of 3 sashes in pilasters under scrolled pediments.
Mansard roof. LISTED GRADE 2
2490
6443
NZ24906443
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/112; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 23 and 185